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Title: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: H20cleaning on March 04, 2014, 10:09:19 pm: I have had a small knocking noise on my van for a while.
I had a mechanic fix a ball joint and track rod ends, still knocked.
So we changed a top engine mount, still knocked.

Then tonight i went to leave my drive and i heard a Big Crunch and then smoke, looked underneath and my fan belt was touching the metal engine frame.
My top engine mount bolts had sheered! And engine was hanging on.

Few days off for me it looks like ???
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: ben M on March 04, 2014, 10:15:54 pm: enjoy your days off ;D
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: David Kent @ KentKleen on March 04, 2014, 10:16:25 pm: NEVER use your first mechanic again. Did he not check everything first?
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: H20cleaning on March 04, 2014, 10:19:47 pm: He didnt know there was a knocking noise, i asked a different garage to put it on the ramps and he found it was ball joint and rod ends... I just assumed that would of solved it, so told my other mechanic to fix them.
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: Jonny 87 on March 04, 2014, 11:14:58 pm: What van do you have h20?
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: H20cleaning on March 04, 2014, 11:42:45 pm: Nissan primastar 2003 90thousand miles.

Quite shocking the fact that engines are only held in by 3 brackets! I could if been doing 60mpg when it fell
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: Jonny 87 on March 05, 2014, 07:36:00 am: Quote from: H20cleaning on March 04, 2014, 11:42:45 pm
Nissan primastar 2003 90thousand miles.

Quite shocking the fact that engines are only held in by 3 brackets! I could if been doing 60mpg when it fell

That's crazy.

Hopefully it's not too costly for ya.
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: Michael Peterson on March 05, 2014, 12:18:50 pm: lucky it didnt smash the gear box adn that as it went, a lot of engines have a subframe undernieth which while is good, takes about 2 hours to take off to get to anything lol
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: H20cleaning on March 05, 2014, 01:43:20 pm: Currently sat getting 2 snapped bolts drilled from the engine thats £60 and a few new bolts £5.00 ... Then it should be fixed.

So it should be rather cheap to fix
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: robertphil on March 05, 2014, 06:53:00 pm: somebody didnt tighten up /glue the bolt threads when renewing the top engine mount it seems
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: Bill.upnw on March 05, 2014, 07:29:57 pm: Quote from: robertphil on March 05, 2014, 06:53:00 pm
somebody didnt tighten up /glue the bolt threads when renewing the top engine mount it seems

+1
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: Spruce on March 05, 2014, 09:03:22 pm: Quote from: H20cleaning on March 05, 2014, 01:43:20 pm
Currently sat getting 2 snapped bolts drilled from the engine thats £60 and a few new bolts £5.00 ... Then it should be fixed.

So it should be rather cheap to fix

I'm sure that should be high tensile bolts. If they have been drilled out then I expect they are mild steel. Could be why the sheared off.
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: AuRavelling79 on March 05, 2014, 09:30:41 pm: Quote from: H20cleaning on March 04, 2014, 11:42:45 pm
Nissan primastar 2003 90thousand miles.

Quite shocking the fact that engines are only held in by 3 brackets! I could if been doing 60mpg when it fell

60 mpg from a primastar? No chance.

60 mph? Maybe on a good day! ;D
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: kempy on March 05, 2014, 10:14:47 pm: Cam belt
Title: Re: Engine was hanging out of my van
Post by: H20cleaning on March 05, 2014, 10:18:47 pm: Yeah they drilled out but the guy said it wore down his drill bit?
Anyway its fixed now i need to take the bolts back out 1 by 1 and put a dan of locktite on them all.

And mayby not 60mpg but i get about 40mpg! Cant go wrong ha